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  1. Re:Alteryx on In-Database R Coming To SQL Server 2016 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    MonetDB has a nice comparison on different in and out of database performance: https://www.monetdb.org/conten...

  2. Re: It's not limited to the US on More Than 40% of US Honeybee Colonies Died In a 12-Month Period Ending In April · · Score: 1

    Preliminary findings from Dutch bee research at http://www.beemonitoring.org/ for 2015 suggest "an evidently higher bee death number than last year (2014)". So nice if you have great honey production, especially if all bees die afterwards.

  3. And you thought 1500 apps is bad? on Networking Library Bug Breaks HTTPS In ~1,500 iOS Apps · · Score: 1

    What about every app that does a HTTP gets the wrong content-type? http://stackoverflow.com/quest...

  4. Luxembourg? on PayPal To Pay $7.7 Million For Sanctions Violations · · Score: 1

    Why would a Luxembourg based company be fined by US sanctions?

  5. Proportionally on $7.4 Million Blurred Lines Verdict Likely To Alter Music Business · · Score: 2

    Doesn't it all boil down to proportionally and fair use? One sample of a song resulting in full copyright assignment to the original sample owner sounds as outrageous and something "in the spirit of" another song. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...

  6. I was hoping this girl was named Katy. on Sony Accused of Pirating Music In "The Interview" · · Score: 1

    In hindsight it would have been far more hilarious if Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson brought the news.

    Do you ever feel, feel so paper thin
    Like a house of cards
    One blow from caving in

  7. Blackout them on Hungary To Tax Internet Traffic · · Score: 2

    I guess then the proper thing to do is to form a cordon sanitaire on all internet services delivered to the Hungarian governmental organisations effectively blackout their entire operation. How is that for democracy :-)

  8. Re:Living in the past! on Driverless Buses Ruled Out For London, For Now · · Score: 1

    Driverless buses do exist in The Netherlands since 1999. The only known crash was when a human override the system. http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...

  9. Re:There is supposed to be a penalty. on "Internet's Own Boy" Briefly Knocked Off YouTube With Bogus DMCA Claim · · Score: 1

    Maybe a little bit more realistic: prevent they can do any other DMCA requests? That would certainly have some great effect on companies that are "just following orders". Another good option would be the support from a safe heaven user like Google to comply with the claim, but directly initiate a counter suit for lost revenue.

  10. Re:Doesn't that put the cat among the pigeons, on Harvard Study Links Neonicotinoid Pesticide To Colony Collapse Disorder · · Score: 1

    I am a strong believer in the "not one cause" theory. Maybe you find the attached article also enlightening. http://www.plosone.org/article...

  11. I thought April fools was 2 days ago? on .NET Native Compilation Preview Released · · Score: 0

    Maybe the Haskell team at Microsoft Research really didn't have anything better to do.

  12. Mandatory publication? on Stack Overflow Could Explain Toyota Vehicles' Unintended Acceleration · · Score: 4, Interesting

    How would a mandatory publication of all code as open source [not suggesting liberal licensing here] work out here? Might converge at a collaborative initiative and will most likely be reviewed by all sort of people.

  13. Surveillance states exists as part of the problem on We Can Avoid a Surveillance State Dystopia · · Score: 0

    Does anyone really think that the NSA wouldn't have been overthrown by the people if the government wasn't there to protect their precious surveillance state in the first place, using means of violence against human society as hole? What we need is a way to establish a status quo in ultimate personal security. A way no sniper riffle in Ukraine could hurt you, nor you would be able to hurt anyone else, nor you would be moving where you don't want to be taken. This would give a lovely ecosystem that everyone understands.
    We are all quite back at Animal Farm et al. The question is: what should happen before mass hysteria outbreak occurs beyond the typical themes such as "religion". Passive democracy is certainly not quite cutting it, and is it better than the past? Probably yes, because people are being held accountable for registered actions. It does sadly not say anything about the puppet master that tries to make us think we are better off now.

  14. Re:Not a standard. on Google Planning To Remove CSS Regions From Blink · · Score: 1

    You may recall the SVG standardisation which also included text-flow (still supported by Inkscape) which was then removed from the draft. It seems some companies really do not want users to have such freedom of creative expression in favor of tools that do.

  15. What would Chris Sawyer think? on Fancy Yourself a Tycoon? OpenTTD 1.4.0 On Its Way · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I am really interested what Chris Sawyers opinion is on these improvements on his original brainchild. Would give a great tech documentary on (open)TTD.

  16. Re:Kidney Stones on Ecuadorian Navy Rescues Bezos After Kidney Stone Attack · · Score: 1

    Indeed, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butylscopolamine is doing the magic there.

  17. Re:PC means Personal Computer,not Politically Corr on Is Computer Science Education Racist and Sexist? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Why would you want to make computer science "more appealing" to women? Just look at science students and computer science students in Russia. Women are the majority!

  18. Samsung had this on their candy bar phones on Putting a Panic Button In Smartphone Users' Hands · · Score: 2

    Pressing 4 times volume down, it would allow you to trigger an emergency sms. Such combination could work for a typical smartphone as well, including position information.

  19. MonetDB/X100 and Vectorwise on Oracle Promises 100x Faster DB Queries With New In-Memory Option · · Score: 2

    Columnstore databases such as MonetDB and their commercial spinoff Vectorwise (now Actian) already showed this can be achieved with open source and proprietary code.

  20. Chernobyl? on Around 2,000 Fukushima Workers At Risk of Thyroid Cancer · · Score: 1

    I don't want to talk about risk etc. but can we please get accurate statistics on this one? Because the risk that it is possible that radiation can cause thyriod cancer is good to know, but I am interested how many workers in Fukushima actually got or might get cancer incompare to the unbelievable low numbers in Chernobyl.

  21. GoboLinux? on Ubuntu Developing Its Own Package Format, Installer · · Score: 2

    Wasn't this exactly what GoboLinux embraced?

  22. Xen's Mini-OS on A Glimpse of a Truly Elastic Cloud · · Score: 1

    Xen introduced Mini-OS years ago. The question is: how much functionality that the kernel and a fat libc commonly provides, does the application need. Boot times are not really the issue anymore; look at systemd, everything is booted within 2s.

  23. Re:Yawn. Savages reject modernity, film at 11. on Egyptian Court Wants To Block YouTube For a Month · · Score: 2

    They tried this in Russia a few years ago. Everything that is prohibited comes around (hard). Better to have it slowly getting extinct over a generation or two. The only problem we have to overcome is the exporting of the religion and have it seed somewhere else, getting more stricter, more correct, than it was where it came from. While I agree with the general vision, the next worst thing to religion is someone that considers himself god and uses politics to get more equal than someone else. This kind of social behavior is a dynamic system with a certain theme to justify itself, it is still bound to rules. These rules are set by nature, either evolving to an equilibrium, directing in a binary split between followers or a collapse aka death.

    With this nice modern internet age transparency it is possible that people actually manipulate what the word sees. Either by the availability of people to see it first hand, the limitation on publishing or damn copyright that prevents others to spread it. Just wondering what anyone can do about a country that riots because of its bad rulers. Is supporting their freedom of information the only thing we can do?

  24. Re:Furthering class warfare on Economists Argue Patent System Should Be Abolished · · Score: 2

    Patents are not brands. So the original brandname is still protected.

  25. Re:Furthering class warfare on Economists Argue Patent System Should Be Abolished · · Score: 1

    Have you been looking at kickstarter? The independent investor does get support and funding now out in the open while in past times this didn't happen. Whats wrong with a bit of competition? If someone really could make a clone of a product at a tenth of the price, everyone benefits including the original inventor that could copy the production strategy.